| Robert Tyler Davis | |
| Birth Date: | 1904 |
| Death Date: | 1978 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Alma Mater: | Harvard University (AB, AM)[1] |
Robert Tyler Davis (1904–1978) was an American art historian, writer and educator.[2] During his lifetime, Davis occupied high ranking positions in several museums and galleries in the United States and Canada. He was Director of Education at the Albright-Knox Gallery, Director at the Portland Art Museum,[3] the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Vizcaya-Dade County Art Museum, now Vizcaya Museum and Gardens. Davis produced several publications including the book Native arts of the Pacific Northwest.
During his tenure at the Albright-Knox Gallery, Davis produced a report funded titled The Art Museum and the Secondary School, it is in this report that the first documented occurrence of the term "visual literacy" is recorded in literature.[4]